If you could go back, or pick and era to grow up in...would you you?

Would you go back?

  • Go back?

    Votes: 93 67.9%

  • Stay here?

    Votes: 33 24.1%

  • Care less?

    Votes: 11 8.0%
  • Total voters
    137
  • Poll closed .
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I would have to say I wouldn't change a thing. If I did I probably wouldn't be with my wife.

Now that the mushy stuff is taken care of, There are only 2 reasons I might want to go back 15 years for a birth date. One is that would make me about 3 years older than my wife. Then she could worry about me kicking the bucket first. LOL The other is, if I was born 15 years earlier I would have missed most of this messed up generation or not given 2 hoots about it. I'm not talking about the kids that are coming up now, each group of teens has always seemed strange to their elders, I'm talking about the politically correct crap and the politics of today.

Jack
 
Being born in 56 I feel I had the best of both worlds. Growing up in the 60's and then getting my license in 72 and enjoying all the 10 year old iron AND the new muscle stuff. Sure there was bad **** happening, but I really don't remember worring about it like I do now that I'm older. I do remember my parents moving into a duplex and wondering just how they were gonna make rent at $175.00/month. I wonder how they would like my $1800.00 mortgage payment? Hahaha. All that being said. I feel I was blessed to have lived my life between 1956 and 20??. Oh and to answer the poll. I wouldn't change a thing.
 
As a young gun from the year '93, I missed all the glory days.

I would only go back if I could be rich and I'd go back to the 70's fuel embargo and buy all my favorite mopars at dirt cheap.:D
 
Yeah driving was alot more fun in the old days--way more

But then again driving isn't everything about life

Cell phones, the Internet, health care is here or better now

So no I would not go back but I would had collected way more old cars and parts!
 
there would be a lot of pro's and con's ...born in 1950 license in 66' first car 60' impala 348/4-speed ...muscle cars out all over... civil rights hot and heavy everybody pissed at each other ..brand new 68 roadrunner 440/4speed $3230 ...69' Viet-nam everybody REALLY pissed at each other ...coming home to 71 new body designs.....rising gas/insurance prices ..BUT through this all the girls ...wow... the sexual revolution .. the con to this is ..well there was none ..I'd go back in a New York minute
 
I think if any of us had the opportunity of going back in time, (wherever you want to go in time) we would quickly find a reason to get back to what we have now in our lives.
But I'd definitely would've like to lived the car seen in the 50's and the 60's.

I'm making the best of what I got today and hopefully the futur will be a great one.
 
seabee said:
I would pick being 19 in the earlier 80's so I could have banged all of the loose metal chicks in the back of my Le Car.

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More like LeTOASTER!! Lol!!
 
X100 on the 50s i have always felt i was born in the wrong era lol hell id dressed like a greaser all through high school eh who am i kidding i still do lol
 
ramenth said:
Not thinking far enough back.

Personally, I would have liked to have been on the frontier.
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To be born a hundred years earlier for sure,...But I've been sayin that for years,....Back when men were men, Women were women, (and the sheep were scared,...haha),...

I'm so tired of bein surrounded by fat, lazy,self important americans who couldn't find their *** without a gps equipped cell phone,...The industrial revelution was kickin in big time,...The earth was much cleaner and less crowded,(an oxymoron,..I know)...A good horse was worth its weight in gold,...A mans handshake was actually worth something,...Kids walked everywhere without worry,...I could go on and on...
 
I wouldn't change a thing. I was born in 57, got my license in 73, and graduated from high school in 75. I had to go to way too many funerals of people killed in Vietnam, and was in ROTC in high school to help prepare if I had to go. Ended up not even having to register for the draft at 18. I didn't believe the man when he told me, and made him give it to me in writing! I lived thru muscle cars just being old gas hogs that were selling cheap, and still own my all numbers matching 1970 A66 Challenger I bought for $600 in 79. I lived thru all the best music, hung out in Myrtle Beach when it wasn't the dud it is today. All in all I've enjoyed life pretty well. Even though I have enjoyed it, I wouldn't want to do it over....even in the same era. One good run is enough....no need to be greedy. :D
 
2darts said:
I think if any of us had the opportunity of going back in time, (wherever you want to go in time) we would quickly find a reason to get back to what we have now in our lives.
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I wouldn't bet the farm on that,...I'm definitely an old world guy in a new world that I've never really been fond of,...Pam said she would go with me...
 
Born in `56 I grew up in a watershed era; saw America and the world change at a rapid pace. Some change good, some bad. Been blessed with a lot of good fortune: family, music performing career and now a chance to realize my near life-long love of muscle cars/hot rods/drag racing with my running project car (`71 Duster 440). All that said, the election in November was very disturbing to me. The country`s move toward Socialism/Statism fueled by an inevitable demographic shift and the Left`s near 40 year stranglehold on education and mass media leave me feeling a deep sense of dread. On the good side I`m not feeling quite as bad about getting older. Hopefully our Lords and Masters in Washington and on Beacon Hill (State of Mass. Gov`t) will see fit to allow us to keep our Mopars.....
 
i was born in 86 so i would definately go back .....i would go back so that i would be 20 years old in 1966 so that way i could afford a high profile car by the early 70s ....everyone knows an 18 year old in 1970 is just as broke as an 18 year old in 2013 LOL
 
Lots of great responses to read!! I like Roberts idea of the wild west too, would be rough but neat to see America back then, especially during the gold rush era of 1849.
 
Conversations like this always make me think about my Great Grandfather. He was born in Sweden in 1876 and came to the USA at the age of 17 by steamship. He died in 1971.

I always think about the changes he seen, going from horses to cars, flying in planes, rockets being launched sending men to the moon. Living through two world wars, Korea, and seeing what was happening in Veit Nam.
I'm sure there was hard time and lots of hard work for little pay, but that must have been some time frame to have lived through.
 
I was born in 59 almost 60. So remember the cool cars the great music and the hot babes in tight jeans. But I was too young and had no money. I think the 70's would be for me. But you can keep the war the racism and the riots.
 
RaniDart70 said:
....everyone knows an 18 year old in 1970 is just as broke as an 18 year old in 2013 LOL
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LOL - $900 a year for insurance on my 69 Cuda 340-S as I remember. That was a lot of money. ;-)

Born in 1950, but would I go back? No. Lived through some great stuff and some crap. Some things you have no control over, and some things are what you make them. I was born in the U.S.A., had no choice in that, but I am sure glad. Had a good child growing up in the country near a small town. Good hot rod and muscle car scene, but things like race riots were only on the evening news, being in a rural small town we were spared those things.
Have some great memories of the 50's, 60's and 70's. And some not so great.
- Drove my 66 Cuda across the country from NY to Sacramento and back after high school. Wouldn't trade that for anything.
-2 yrs in the army and a tour in V.N., friends lost over there. I would trade some of that.
-Hanging out at the Plymouth dealership waiting for my buddies 70 Plum Crazy Hemi Cuda to have the cracked exhaust manifold replaced. First car I ever drove that would go sideways in any gear. Priceless.
- Being a part of a crew of high school buddies, hanging out at my buddies shop, building hot rods and other fun car stuff, drag racing, street racing. Wouldn't trade it.
- 66 Cuda commando 273, 69 340-S, 72 340, 4 Spd Duster, 72 Scamp, Shouldn't have traded.

Good times and great memories that I wouldn't trade, but I wouldn't go back. Just like now, a lot of good things and some bad. Yeah the new car scene now is pretty pathetic, yes Washington's a mess, but I have a great family, 3 fantastic grandsons who are already becoming Mopar guys.

YOUNG GUNS - Make these great times, do what you can to create your own "Happy Days" or "American Graffiti" You can you know, might just be a little harder.
 
Born in 47, and growing up in the fifties, lived on a lake in Michigan fished every day I could and could dig a can of worms grab my pole and hop on my bike and fish several near by lakes no license no hassle . Spent my time in nam, spent my time in Michigan during the Detroit riots .i guess it's a go back to a simple time for me even not knowing what I know now.
Moe
 
Timewise,cool.to visit,the 50's,the 60's. Grew up 80's /90's, way prefer the new info,technology wise.As for living, Post WW2 ,till JFK in Dallas.
 
I'd go back to the 30's, when the V8 era started, I'd want my current engine knowledge & I recon I could burn some wood ducks into the weeds & they wouldn't know what happened
 
born in 64 and wouldn't change that only some of the paths in life I ventured down. being 8 out of 10 kids and growing up in the Washington DC area I got to experience a lot of what was going on in the times including the car culture.
 
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